Part two of a three-part indispensable resource, the Collier Pamphlet Edition, Part 2 contains the complete and up-to-date text of the Federal Rules of Bankruptcy Procedure, as well as the Federal Rules of Evidence, the Official Forms in Bankruptcy, and the Director's Procedural Forms. Part 2 also includes the Advisory Committee Notes, Letters of Transmittal and other rule history, and cross-references to other Collier publications, as well as expert commentary and case summaries written by Collier editors-in-chief Alan N. Resnick and Henry J. Sommer.

When you rely on the Collier Pamphlet Edition, you can be confident you're working with current, authoritative information, whether you're in the office or in the courtroom.

Featured Authors

Henry J. Sommer

Lawrence P. King

Richard Levin

Henry J. Sommer

Henry J. Sommer is a leading authority on consumer bankruptcy law and has litigated many major cases involving bankruptcy, consumer law, civil rights and other issues. He is the Supervising Attorney at the pro bono Consumer Bankruptcy Assistance Project in Philadelphia and formerly served as the head of the Consumer Law Project at Community Legal Services in Philadelphia. Mr. Sommer has served as a Lecturer-in-Law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School and is an adjunct professor at Temple University School of Law. Mr. Sommer is the author of Collier Consumer Bankruptcy Practice Guide (Matthew Bender), Consumer Bankruptcy Law and Practice (Nat'l Consumer Law Center), and numerous articles on bankruptcy law. He is co-author of Collier Family Law and the Bankruptcy Code (Matthew Bender). Mr. Sommer is an elected member of the American Law Institute and the National Bankruptcy Conference. In addition, he is an elected Fellow of the American College of Bankruptcy. He is a former president of the National Association of Consumer Bankruptcy Attorneys, former Chair of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania Bankruptcy Conference and a former member of the Federal Reserve Board Consumer Advisory Council. Mr. Sommer was the first recipient of the National Consumer Law Center's Vern Countryman Consumer Law Award. He received his legal education from Harvard Law School (J.D., cum laude).

Lawrence P. King

Lawrence P. King was the Editor-in-Chief of Matthew Bender's Collier bankruptcy publications, includingthe nation's leading treatise on bankruptcy law, Collier on Bankruptcy, 15th Edition. Mr. King wasthe Charles Seligson Professor of Law at New York University School of Law. He also served as Counsel to the law firm of Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen and Katz in New York. Professor King was Vice Chair of the National Bankruptcy Conference and former reporter to the Advisory Committee on BankruptcyRules of the Judicial Conference of the UnitedStates. In addition to his role as Editor-in-Chief of the Collier publications, Mr. King was the co-author oftwo Matthew Bender publications: Duesenberg &King, Sales and Bulk Transfers Under the U.C.C.(Matthew Bender), and King & Cook, Creditors' Rights, Debtors' Protection, and Bankruptcy (Matthew Bender).

Richard Levin

Richard Levin is a Co-head of Jenner & Block LLP’s Restructuring and Bankruptcy Practice, practicing in the New York City office. Mr. Levin's practice concentrates on corporate restructuring, insolvency and bankruptcy issues. From 1975 to 1978, Mr. Levin served as counsel to a subcommittee of the House Judiciary Committee, where he was one of the principal authors of the Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978. Mr. Levin is a member and former Chair of the National Bankruptcy Conference, a select organization of bankruptcy professionals that has acted as an informal advisor to Congress on bankruptcy law since the mid-1930s. He is also a Fellow of the American College of Bankruptcy and a former member of its Board of Trustees (2007–2009). Mr. Levin also served as Faculty at the Federal Judicial Center (2001-present) and as a Lecturer in Law at Harvard Law School (2004, 2006). Mr. Levin received an S.B. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1972, and a J.D. from Yale Law School in 1975.